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The phrase “what doesn't kill you makes you stronger” is from aphorism number 8 in the 1888 book Twilight of the Idols by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche:

German: “Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker”

English: “Out of life's school of war—what doesn't kill me, makes me stronger”

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Actually, I recognized it in German

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exactly. I’m currently reading yellow’s novel we Niezsche wept. Y

Yalom Is brilliant and the storyline is a novel, but the characters come from real figures of the 19 century one of whom is Nietzsche Send Dr. Joseph Breuet and a very young Sigmund Freud. Nietzsche was actually a very sickly man and that’s actually fact and in the fictional story Royer is called in to help him and in a twisted plot end up helping. In any case what we see are the beginnings of psychoanalysis and the issues, really have to do with human passion and ire and relationships with people. I will write an essay about this book and discuss it and see if I get any readers who are interested in participating in a discussion. Mark, I’m sure you will be interested. I am dictating this note and spelling all comes out wrong, so please excuse the errors .

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And a la Nietzsche is God dead?

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Yalom

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